Stickbash · play-test round 2 · page 29

ITEMS & RELOAD

We need to remove that spotlight item drop, it's so fancy.

Reduce the size of the items, it's too big in game.

More reloading time per gun, so fighters without a weapon get a chance to attack. The reload animation should be nicer too.

Real frames from today's game wherever possible (DARK VIVID, the CALM CORE controls, the sticker items). Each section shows today first, then the options. Pick one per section, then press COPY MY PICKS and paste it in chat. Nothing changes in the game until you've picked.

How small items arrive

A CALMER SPAWN

The spotlight call (lamp, beam, rising item, yellow tag) goes. Each option below plays on a clean full-night arena, with the real sticker art at the item size you pick in section 2. The parachute SUPPLY DROP stays for gear, the golden crate and heavy guns, except in option D, where every item uses it.

Real captures, iPhone shape, full night

ITEM SIZE IN THE ARENA

The same seeded match, captured from the game four times at four item sizes (lying guns scale with them). Today is 1.5x (items) and 1.3x (lying guns).

TO SCALE, NEXT TO A FIGHTER

Per gun, measured in what a fist fighter can do

RELOAD TIME

Each option is a per-gun table in real seconds as you feel them (the game runs at 0.7 speed). The punish window is how far a fighter with bare fists runs during your reload: 3.6 m per game second plus one dash (+0.65 m). If they start that close, they reach you before you can shoot again.

Longer reloads deserve a better show

RELOAD MOVES

Today's real frames, next to two redrawn styles in the game's own stickman look. All three play at the reload time picked in section 3 (B), so you can feel the length, not just see the motion.

Pick any number

"HE'S RELOADING, GO!"

A punish window only matters if the opponent notices it. Each option is drawn on a real frame from the game, a reload mid-way at full night. Pick any combination.

WHAT COMES WITH ANY PICK

Bots use the window. At HARD / INSANE they rush a reloading gunner they can reach in time; at EASY they mostly don't. A bot that's reloading backs off (this is already being built in the bots stream).
Wi-Fi. The host decides reload start and end, and it's already in the snapshot (protocol 35), so every phone shows the same reload, ring and sound.
FIRE during a reload does nothing apart from a soft dry click, never a toss. An empty gun with nothing left is still tossed or butt-smashed, as today.
Cancels: tossing, dropping, being grabbed or swapping weapons cancels the reload; the gun keeps the rounds it had. Picking up a fresh gun is ready at once.
Executions never reload, so the finisher stays smooth. Rapid Fire and ENDLESS AMMO rooms keep full magazines, as today.
Reload speed perks (later): a power-up or gear could shorten reloads, which only means something once reloads are long enough to matter.